It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

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D.H.
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It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

Post by D.H. » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:49 pm

It was July 1999 when CPAP #1 arrived. I'm now on #4!

It was much larger and much noisier than my current one. It was the only model on the market at that time with a built-in or integrated humidifier. It had a three-prong plug, which was a nuisance for international travel, given that the manufacturer warned me not to use it ungrounded. It was dual-voltage, which some of the models on the market at the time were not! It did not have altitude compensation (automatic or manual), leak compensation, or any type of tracking except for an odometer that tracked blower hours!

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Re: It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

Post by Cpapian » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:19 pm

Congratulations. Think of all the brain cells you saved.

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Re: It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

Post by zonker » Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:16 pm

congrats, d.h.! i hope i can make it 18 years myself, as i didn't start until i was 60.

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Re: It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

Post by kteague » Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:26 pm

It was about that time I should have been put on CPAP but my jumpy legs stole all the attention in my sleep studies. Congrats on 18 years!

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Re: It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

Post by chunkyfrog » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:52 am

Congratulations, "old-timer"!

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Re: It's official; eighteen years on CPAP!

Post by SewTired » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:39 am

Yay! Congratulations for making it thus far!

Oh, and the masks!! My sister's mask looked rather like a diver's mask.

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